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13 Jan, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Do only those who embrace death at Modi's call, or in a cause dear to him, may claim any right to his sympathetic consideration? | Badri Raina
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A full week has passed since Meghalaya governor Satya Pal Malik disclosed Modi's infamous retort when he brought up the death of 500 farmers in a private meeting.
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Neither Modi nor the Prime Minister's Office have sought to deny the words Malik attributed to him – "Mere liye mare hain? (did [the farmers] die for me?)"
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What else can these pithy words have meant, in the vernacular form in which Malik reported them spoken?
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Modi clearly seems to conflate his persona with the majesty of the state, in a throwback to Louis XIV who famously declared, "L'Etat, c'est moi (I am the State)".
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We may recall that at the time of the surgical strike in the Nowshera sector of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state, Modi referred to Indian soldiers as "mere jawan (my soldiers)" as he lauded their valour.
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It would be salutary if Modi were to take a minute out to shed some light on this troubling episode which, having been made public, requires either refutation or acknowledgement.
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